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SubjectRe: Strange IDE performance change in 2.6.1-rc1 (again)
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> 'cat' is probably doing a stat() on stdout and seeing it's connected
> to /dev/null and not even bothering to do the write() call. I've seen
> similar behavior in other GNU utilities.

I can't see any special casing for /dev/null in cat's source, but I
forgot to check dd with bigger block size. It's ok with bs=4096...

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